Pencil-holder.



R. LEWIS & J. STRAKA.

PENCIL HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JAH..2B, 1911.

Patented Sept. 3,1912.

ina 140mm wv w RUDOLPH LEWIS AND JOHN STBAKA, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

PENCIL-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Yatcnt.

Application illed January 28, 1911.

Patented Sept. 3, 1912.

Serial No. 605,259.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that we, RUDOLPH Lawrs, a citizen of the United States and JOHN STRAKA, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, both residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pencil-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pencil holders or clips and the object of the invention is the provision of a simple, efficient and durable device which may be cheaply constructed and which may be readily attached to and detached from a garment and which will prevent the loss or accidental or displacement of a pencil, pen or other similar device.

Further objects of the invention will appear as the followin specific description is read in connection with the accompanying icadrawing which forms a. part of this app tion, and in which Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation. Fig. 3 is a detailed longitudinal section.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 1 represents the body of the device which is constructed preferably of a ring metal and has its lower end broadene out into clamping arms 2 which are bent around in the form shown so as to clamp around a pencil, pen or other similar device. Riveted to the back of the body is a bar 8 whose lower end is extended into a'finger 4 having sharpened side ed es 5 which are adapted for severing the aps of envelops from the body thereof.

The upper end of the body is extended at right ang es, as shown at 6, and bent downwardly, as shown at 7, the downward portion terminating in an inwardly extending prong 8. The right angular portion 6 extends through an a erture 9 in the bar 3 and the prong 8 exten s throu h a similar aperbar for the entrance of a portion of the arment to which the device is to be attac ed. When the garment is in this space the bar is released and allowed to spring back against the portion 7 which forces the prong and a part of thegarment in the open ture 8.

Having thus described the invention, what we claim as new is A pencil holder comprising a body member, spring pencil clamping arms formed thereon, a s ring bar riveted to the body member and extending in both directions therefrom with one end diverging therefrom, said spring bar havin a pair of apertures therein, a hook mem er on the body member (passing through one of the apertures an being bent ownwardly to limit the movement of the bar, and an inwardly extending prong on the hook member adapted to enter the other aperture in the spring bar to clamp the fabric of a su port therein.

In'testimony whereof we ailix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

RUDOLPH LEWIS. JOHN STRAKA. Witnesses:

J. R. Wruxams, F. E. SMITH- Oopiss of this pstont ms: be obtained for flvs cents each, by addressing the Commissioner or Patents.

Washington, D. 0." 

